1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:02,239 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 2: We're on the radio from one until four after four o'clock. 4 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 2: Whatever you miss John Cobelt Show on demand. And these 5 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 2: are the final hours that you could win a thousand 6 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 2: dollars from us. All right, today is the last day 7 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,600 Speaker 2: of this run of the contest. I don't know if 8 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 2: it's coming back, but it's a thousand dollars. You could 9 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 2: win in about fifteen minutes, So you better do it 10 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 2: because Monday, no contest, no free loading, no giveaway. 11 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: Got a job. 12 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 2: Let's talk about I am in suspicious mode. I'm always 13 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:44,919 Speaker 2: in suspicious mode, but my antenna is up. I hear 14 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:48,599 Speaker 2: the alarm bells because there is now a lot of 15 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 2: buzz about the ridiculous amount of crime that we're dealing 16 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 2: with here in California. We've got the DA's race in 17 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 2: La County, which is going to be pivotal, most important. 18 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 2: You vote on one thing. It's the DA's race in 19 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 2: La County. All right. No George Gascon and no Jeff 20 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 2: Schamerinsky either. 21 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: He's another one. He's a mini Gascon. 22 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 2: Now we'll talk next week about the ones who are 23 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 2: that you should vote for and are most likely to win, 24 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 2: which is the most important thing. Now, there's obviously a 25 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 2: movement to repeal Prop. Forty seven or give it a 26 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 2: major revision. And that's why we're doing the show at 27 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 2: the Honda Center in the parking lot on Thursday. And 28 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,839 Speaker 2: you know it must be you know their polling must 29 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 2: be bad. If now you have two Democrats in the 30 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 2: California Legislature, two of the top Democrats who are have 31 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 2: written up some kind of bill to take on retail theft, 32 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 2: smash and grab variety. The Assembly Speaker Robert Reeves and 33 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 2: then the Assembly member Rick chavezburg zbu r z burr uh. 34 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 2: He's chairman of the Select Committee on Retail Theft. I 35 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 2: love how they have a special committee to combat something 36 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 2: that they claim wasn't going on. 37 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: Down. 38 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 2: Crime is going down, well, not retail theft. Uh huh. Well, 39 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 2: let's get Blake Trolley on because he covered this story today. 40 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 2: Maybe he could explain what this is about it. This 41 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 2: is a real thing. 42 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: Blake how much? John? 43 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 3: So? 44 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 1: I'm good. 45 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 3: So. A couple of months ago, I had asked Governor 46 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 3: Newson when he was in LA what he would like 47 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 3: to see out of the Assembly Retail Theft Committee. He 48 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 3: told me he would leave that to the legislature. Then 49 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 3: shortly after the governor urged lawmakers to enact a series 50 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 3: of laws, and this beer a bill appears to show 51 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 3: that lawmakers are falling in line with at least some 52 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 3: of those proposals, which will make Newsom's very real, very 53 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,799 Speaker 3: regular trips to target safer. This bill creates a new 54 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 3: crime targeting professional retail thefts. Possession of stolen property with 55 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 3: intent to sell under this bill would carry a three 56 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 3: year and up to three year prison term. Now, the 57 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 3: bill specifies that intent could mean repeated stealing, also having 58 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,119 Speaker 3: a quantity of stolen goods that is above personal use. 59 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 3: The bill allows the value of several smaller thefts to 60 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 3: be added up for grand theft. Online sellers will be 61 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,239 Speaker 3: required to show records that the things they are selling 62 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 3: are legitimate and are not stolen and one thing and 63 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 3: this could bite a lot of people on the criminal 64 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 3: reform side. Large retailers will be required to report theft data. 65 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 3: Police will be able to arrest based on witnesses and 66 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 3: surveillance video. This is something that we have been told 67 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 3: as a real struggle for law enforcement agencies is that 68 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 3: they actually have to witness theft. And this is why 69 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 3: you see those sting operations pull officers off the streets. 70 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 2: So you blipped out briefly there. So the old law 71 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 2: was that the cops had to witness thefts. So how 72 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 2: does it change here? 73 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 3: Under the current laws, police have to witness the theft 74 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 3: themselves to be able to arrests on it. Now they'll 75 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 3: be able to arrest based on witness testimony. This will 76 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 3: probably be store workers, also surveillance video. 77 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: You know, I didn't even know that. 78 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 2: You mean the police ever arrested people that that stole 79 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 2: unless they stole right in front of the cop. 80 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 3: I believe all they would be able to do is site. 81 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 3: Under the current laws, they actually if they're to actually 82 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 3: take somebody into custody, they have to witness it. And 83 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 3: that's why you see those undercover sting operations a lot 84 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 3: around the holidays. 85 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 2: Okay, so this goes after the organized retail theft that 86 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 2: leads to the smash and grabs right right when you 87 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 2: when you go steal stuff, maybe you steal stuff with 88 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 2: twenty of your thieving buddies and you all return the 89 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 2: items to central headquarters where they're fenced and then sold 90 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 2: elsewhere exactly. 91 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this is taking a direct aim at 92 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 3: the people who are stealing to resell, right. 93 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 2: Because so this is just it's it's written to deal 94 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 2: with a narrow set of circumstances here. This is not 95 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 2: going to stop the every day garden variety retail theft 96 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 2: where a local guy walks in and steals a couple 97 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 2: hundred dollars worth of stuff for himself. 98 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm really interested to see how much teeth it 99 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 3: has in for just everyday shoplifting. I mean, one of 100 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 3: the things one of the lawmakers said yesterday during this 101 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 3: press conference was that a lot of the teeth are 102 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 3: for more of the organized retail theft than that they 103 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 3: would have more diversion based programs and resources very people 104 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 3: who are shoplifting to make a living essentially. 105 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 2: Okay, so what are the penalties here? But let's say 106 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 2: they nab ten guys, right, and they stormed into a 107 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 2: nord Strums and they're stealing all of the debor's handbags 108 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 2: and shoes and things, and they get caught, They're on 109 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 2: video the whole thing. Are they actually going to go 110 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 2: to prison? 111 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 3: I think A lot of this would depend on what 112 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 3: they actually did, if this was a smash and grab 113 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 3: or not. But let's say this was a large scale operation. 114 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 3: One thing that we do know under this bill is 115 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 3: that if they hit multiple stores, I guess they might 116 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 3: add up some of the out the value items to 117 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 3: get to a grand theft charge if they are just 118 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 3: caught possessing stolen items with the intent to resell them. 119 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 3: So this is that they have the items now that 120 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 3: they stole from the store, maybe they're trying to sell 121 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 3: those online. Under this bill, they face up to three 122 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 3: years in prison. But we know John that one of 123 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 3: the big questions, or one of the big concerns about 124 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,039 Speaker 3: any of this, any of this criminal reform, is that 125 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 3: there just isn't the local county jail capacity to house 126 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 3: people that are committing these crimes. So while they might 127 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 3: be sentenced with three years in prison, how much will 128 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 3: they actually serve that stuff to. 129 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 2: Sec So are these gonna be felonies? Because three years 130 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 2: in prison sounds like a felony offense, and if it's 131 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 2: a felony offense, they should go to state prison. 132 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm still reading through the bill. Actually, I 133 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 3: just got a copy of the bill recently, so I'm 134 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 3: still trying to figure out if they're going to state 135 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 3: prison or if they're going to a local county jail. 136 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 2: Because the Newsom and the Democratic legislators, you know, my 137 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 2: first instinct is they're doing something cosmetic that has all 138 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 2: kinds of loopholes and off ramps, and at the end 139 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 2: of it all, hardly anybody's really going to go to 140 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 2: prison for three years. 141 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: And so that's what I want. 142 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 2: I want to I realized this story just came out 143 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 2: today and it's got to be read through and maybe 144 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 2: next week we'll get somebody on who's a legal expert 145 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 2: on this and can locate the flaws and the loopholes 146 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 2: and the double talk. 147 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 3: Well, the bill was, yeah, the bill was introduced actually 148 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 3: just today. They did a press conference on it yesterday. 149 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 3: I believe it was introduced just today, and within minutes, 150 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 3: I mean we're talking a few minutes of be coming 151 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 3: on the air with you, I had the bill, said 152 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 3: to me, so I can forward that over to you, John, 153 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 3: and we can both kind of look through it. One 154 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 3: thing I do want to point out here, so this 155 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 3: bill was introduced by a suddenly Speaker Robert Reeves and 156 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 3: Assembly Mean Rick Chavez Ziburr. And one thing that seemed 157 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 3: to be important to both of these lawmakers was that 158 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 3: the bill was not an over correction. One of the 159 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 3: places where this became obvious was who was apparently at 160 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 3: the table to give input on this bill. Here's Assemblyman 161 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 3: Chavez zibur On that. 162 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 4: After the Retail Theft Committee was formed, my office and 163 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 4: i AM engaged in months of extensive dialogue with the 164 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 4: wide range of stakeholders, including criminal justice reform advocates, AH, 165 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 4: many of the major retailers, small businesses, grocers, unions representing workers, 166 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 4: public defenders, district attorneys, police city attorneys, and online retailers, 167 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 4: and many more. As we considered suggestions, we viewed them 168 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 4: through the lens the Speaker asked us to use, namely, 169 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 4: with the goal of advancing balanced, effective and meaningful solutions 170 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 4: that addressed this problem and at the same time preserving 171 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 4: criminal justice reforms that have been effective at keeping our 172 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:37,319 Speaker 4: community safe. 173 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: But no, they haven't. 174 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 2: I'm make sure you wouldn't be writing and passing this bill. 175 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: There would be no need for this bill. 176 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 2: If your stupid ideas worked, and you don't care if 177 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 2: they work. 178 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,559 Speaker 1: You just want to let all the prisoners out. That's 179 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: what you want to do. 180 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 2: You think jail and prison are illegitimate, you think police 181 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:56,079 Speaker 2: forces are illegitimate? 182 00:08:56,679 --> 00:08:58,319 Speaker 1: Hoday, load of crap. 183 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 3: So we're going to have to read through this bill, 184 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 3: jeous exactly what's in the fine print. I'll forward that 185 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 3: over to you and maybe, yeah, next week we can 186 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 3: break down some of the more finer print details of this. 187 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 2: I'm way more than suspicious. I don't know what the 188 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 2: next word is to describe how I'm feeling, but I'm 189 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 2: more than just a little skeptical of this. All right, 190 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 2: all right, Blake, thanks very much. They so you will 191 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 2: look at this and go through it. Oh oh, we 192 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 2: had to say a prayer to prop forty seven. He 193 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 2: had to say a prayer to Justice Reform. It's a 194 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 2: load of garbage. All they've done is release prisoners, and 195 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 2: those released prisoners have stolen a lot of stuff and 196 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 2: hurt a lot of people. That's all they've accomplished. So 197 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 2: this is why you need forty seven repealed, revised, rewritten. 198 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: All right. 199 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 2: I mean, for God's sakes, even the mayor of San 200 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 2: Francisco and the Mary of San Jose, and those two 201 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 2: are big progressives. And they are on board to repeal 202 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 2: Prop forty seven. 203 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: The thing is, that was it revis in here? Who 204 00:09:58,960 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 1: said it? 205 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, Reevas, he's a House speaker. I'm 206 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 2: most interested in getting it right. We know this is 207 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 2: a problem. We don't want to have a knee jerk 208 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 2: reaction and blame Prop forty seven. No, it is Prop 209 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 2: forty seven. We didn't have these issues ten years ago. 210 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: Stop it. God. 211 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 2: All they do is lie. What is the modern term 212 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 2: for it, gas lighting? It's just lying if you say. 213 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 2: If you repeat a lie often enough, your defenses break down. 214 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 2: Your brain is primed to believe things. I got to 215 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 2: take a break, pick up money to give away. Coming 216 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 2: up in minutes. 217 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 218 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:41,839 Speaker 5: six forty. 219 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 2: All right, Well, as Blake Charlie said, they just made 220 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 2: the bill public a few minutes ago, right before he 221 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:56,559 Speaker 2: came on the air. So I haven't seen it yet, 222 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 2: but we'll certainly see it by Monday. And see this 223 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 2: thing that they have written up. It's the Assembly speaker, 224 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 2: Robert Reeves. He's a Democrat, so is Rick Zibur He's 225 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 2: from Los Angeles, and they want to go after professional 226 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 2: retail thieves, the smash and grab variety, and they're creating 227 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 2: a new crime with a penalty up to three years 228 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 2: in prison for possession of stolen property with intent to sell. Now, 229 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 2: intent to sell is a tough selling court, so they 230 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 2: can use repeated offenses or possessing a large amount of 231 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,839 Speaker 2: goods that is inconsistent with personal use. 232 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: That sounds vague. 233 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 2: I'm just looking for all the vague phrases that they 234 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,679 Speaker 2: use today and wondering if that's in the actual bill. 235 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 2: They can add up the value of thefts thefts from 236 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 2: different retailers, so you can get grand theft. If you 237 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 2: sell this stuff online, you have to maintain records to 238 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 2: show that you obtain the goods legally. Of course, a 239 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 2: lot of those websites well on eBay, right, they're. 240 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: Like pop ups. 241 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 2: You know, you get a big shipment of stolen goods 242 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 2: and you quickly sell them on eBay, then you close up. 243 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,199 Speaker 2: I didn't know that the police could only arrest a 244 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 2: shoplifter if the police sought with their own eyeballs. 245 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 1: I had no idea, and gonna they're gonna fix that. 246 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 2: It can be based on a witness's sworn statement or 247 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 2: video footage, and then then intervention it says your courts 248 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 2: can refer some shoplifters to alternative programs. No, I want 249 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 2: to ban the phrase alternative programs. All I want is here, 250 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 2: All I want to hear is jail or prison, county, jail, state, prison, 251 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 2: depending on the severity of the crime. Stop with your 252 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:54,559 Speaker 2: alternative nonsense, your rehabilitative nonsense. None of that works. Obviously, 253 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 2: none of it has worked. So just build more jails 254 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 2: and more prisons. This is what they do in normals 255 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 2: dates in normal countries. Well, I tell you you ever 256 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 2: notice sometimes if you follow the news or politics or anything, 257 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 2: it seems you wake up on them one morning and 258 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 2: suddenly everybody is using the same talking points, the same 259 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 2: inside phrases, code words. 260 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:21,239 Speaker 1: Right, I'm convinced that somehow. 261 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 2: The Democratic Party in California got hold of some really 262 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 2: bad polling numbers. Because now even the mayor of Berkeley, 263 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 2: and this guy is super woke. His name is Jesse Araguin, 264 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 2: and he has helped destroy Berkeley. In fact, he got 265 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 2: in to office in twenty twenty and he chopped ten 266 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 2: million dollars from the police budget. He wrote this in 267 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 2: July twenty twenty in the San Francisco Chronicle in Berkeley 268 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 2: by colleagues, and I defunded nine million, two hundred and 269 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,559 Speaker 2: fifty one thousand, four hundred and fifty eight dollars from 270 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 2: Berkeley Police Department, or twelve percent of the agency's annual 271 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 2: operating budget. He's praising the George Floyd riots and awakened 272 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 2: America's collective consciousness to the systemic racism that pervades our society. 273 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 1: Blah blah, blah blah. 274 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 2: But now four years later, he is leading the charge 275 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 2: for law and order. He held a press conference this 276 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 2: week forming a task force to address all the lawlessness 277 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 2: in Berkeley and other nearby cities. The perpetrators of crime 278 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 2: aren't constrained by jurisdictional lines. They don't stop when they 279 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 2: get to the city's borders. That means we cannot stay siloed. 280 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 2: We have to work across jurisdictions. They're teeming up to 281 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 2: cut down on crime. This is after he took took 282 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 2: away twelve percent of the city's police budget because the 283 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 2: police were all racists. The whole system was racist, and 284 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 2: then crime exploded in Berkeley. And now he's standing there 285 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 2: with his pants down. Oh and he's also running for 286 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 2: State Senate. And you know they're adopting these poses just 287 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 2: for the next eight months. They're gonna have this belief 288 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 2: system from here to the first Tuesday in November, and 289 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 2: then they're never going to bring it up again. Here's 290 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 2: a businessman in downtown Berkeley. A little late now, isn't 291 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 2: it your bash? Cops cut funds? Now you want to 292 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 2: address it. It's hilarious. This area is not like this 293 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 2: five years ago. The business owners have had it. Downtown Berkeley. 294 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 2: Entire blocks are now closed for least signs everywhere. You 295 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 2: see it all every day, said the merchant. Homelessness, violence, 296 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 2: people pooping in the street. It's the norm now. Jesse 297 00:15:55,760 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 2: arrogant destroyed Berkeley. Now he's running for state Senate and 298 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 2: now he's a born again crime fighter. These people are 299 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 2: disgusting and did shame on all the morons who voted 300 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 2: for him to begin with. He's this pudgy little weasel. 301 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 2: What do you think was going to happen? You got 302 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 2: almost ten million dollars out of the police budget. What 303 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 2: do you think is going to happen? Do you think 304 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 2: good things are going to happen? What a wave of 305 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 2: mass insanity, absolute mass insanity. When we come back Channel four, 306 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 2: reporter Alex Rozier, he went inside that vacant tower in 307 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 2: downtown La the one that was all graffitied over, the 308 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 2: one where people are jumping off the top and paragliding. 309 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 2: What do you think it looks like? Inside your play 310 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 2: of his story. And we're also going to talk about 311 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 2: Rick Caruso's reaction because he's obviously disgusted by this. 312 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: Karen Bass do a hell of a job. 313 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 2: That was another good decision she had to go in 314 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame with this Berkeley mayor. 315 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI A 316 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 5: six forty. 317 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:14,679 Speaker 2: We're on the radio one until four A and then 318 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 2: after four o'clock John Cobelts Show on demand, and we 319 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 2: have two rounds of the Moistline. Two runs of the 320 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,199 Speaker 2: Moistline coming up in the three o'clock hour, and the 321 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 2: final thousand dollars that will be giving away. Tim will 322 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 2: have two rounds of a giveaway and then we're done 323 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 2: for now days. The last day to play the contest 324 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,960 Speaker 2: and win one thousand dollars that'll be coming up about 325 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 2: three to twenty and we'll have Bill a sale on 326 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 2: just after three o'clock because a couple of Republican Assemblymen 327 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 2: have introduced a bill that is going to go after 328 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 2: the homeless problem. But it's not going to be housing first, 329 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:59,120 Speaker 2: because that's a failure. And Bill's going to explain this idea. 330 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 2: It looks like that that graffiti tower in downtown la 331 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 2: is going to become the symbol of the decay and 332 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 2: lawlessness of the Eric Carcetti, Karen bass Era, h it's 333 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:17,160 Speaker 2: it's getting a lot of attention because it's so spectacular. 334 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 2: As I told you, it actually was in the backdrop 335 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 2: of the Grammy Awards shot when Trevor Noah the MC 336 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 2: introduced the Awards show and he was standing on a 337 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 2: balcony and behind him you could see the graffiti tower. 338 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 2: And it turns out this is a story five years 339 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 2: in the making, and now everybody's scrambling to cover their ass. 340 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 2: You may have seen this tower, you know, with many 341 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:46,719 Speaker 2: many floors of ugly graffiti on it. 342 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 1: No, no, it's all artwork. No, it's ugly. 343 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 2: Graffiti, that's what it is. Don't be a moron. You 344 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 2: wouldn't do this on your house. And and now and 345 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 2: and it was never guarded. It was never secured by 346 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 2: the city. The Chinese company, the guy who owned the 347 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 2: company was indicted with Jose Weesar and bribery and fraud charges. 348 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 2: Weeds are is going to prison and the guy, the CEO, 349 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 2: he fled back to China. And that's what's made this 350 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 2: hysterical because some politicians are shaking their fists saying we're 351 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 2: going to send the owner of the bill. Well, we'll 352 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 2: explain something about that in a moment, But first, NBC 353 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:34,439 Speaker 2: four reporter Alex Rosier, he's got a report on the 354 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 2: graffiti building. He went inside to take a look at 355 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 2: the condition indoors so roll cut one. 356 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 6: LA Council member Kevin Dale Oones team shot this video 357 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 6: Thursday morning as they toured the ocean Wide Plaza development. 358 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,439 Speaker 6: It's like anything I've ever seen before. They looked around 359 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 6: the three graffiti filled towers alongside several city departments, trying 360 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 6: to determine how they will secure the paridh. 361 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 1: I don't want folks out there base jumping. I don't 362 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: want folks out there sleeping and falling. 363 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 6: The city's given the owner ocean Wide until the seventeenth 364 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 6: to clean up the site. 365 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: And secure it. 366 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 6: Otherwise the city will do it and send ocean Wide 367 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 6: the bill. They understand what their role and responsibility is, 368 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 6: so they're going to take care of it. 369 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 1: I can't speak for them right now. 370 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 6: LAPD is surrounding the Project twenty four to seven, a 371 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 6: project that was halted in twenty nineteen and was supposed 372 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 6: to be Condo's, a hotel and mall, but now LAPD 373 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 6: Sergeant Gordon Helper says it's been destroyed by graffiti. 374 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:37,680 Speaker 1: There was a canvas for everybody. 375 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 6: Sergeant Helper also toured the site today. 376 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,159 Speaker 7: It reminds me a lot of what happened in you know, 377 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 7: with Chernobyl. It just looks like it's been vacant for 378 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 7: a lot long time. There's a lot of vandalism in 379 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 7: the stairwells, there's a lot of paint and vandalism inside 380 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:51,880 Speaker 7: the rooms. 381 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:53,679 Speaker 1: There are some built out rooms. 382 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 7: In there, and there's it's destroyed. 383 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 6: In a bit of good news, the sergeant set ocean 384 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 6: Wide hired a private contractor to test security sensors that 385 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 6: would alert them if anyone is ever on the property. 386 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 6: But that may be just the first step in what 387 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:13,439 Speaker 6: will likely be a long and graffiti filled journey in 388 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 6: downtown Los Angeles. 389 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,159 Speaker 1: So tomorrow the LA. 390 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,160 Speaker 6: City Council is going to discuss what it may cost 391 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 6: to clean up and to secure the sites. Then on Saturday, 392 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 6: that's the deadline for ocean Wide to come. 393 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 1: In and get to work here. 394 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 6: Bottom line, this story is not going away anytime soon. 395 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,880 Speaker 2: You know what was missing in that report on Channel four. 396 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:43,639 Speaker 2: Ocean Wide is bankrupt. There's been a massive real estate 397 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 2: market crash in China. This crash brought down hundreds of 398 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 2: billions of dollars in value. Hundreds of billions of US 399 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 2: dollars evaporated, disappeared in there. It took down Evergrand that's 400 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 2: China's largest real estate developer. It's bankrupt. Ocean Wide is bankrupt, 401 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 2: and that tool, Kevin de Leone is standing there beating 402 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,439 Speaker 2: his chest. Well, we're gonna send him the bill, not 403 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 2: gonna pay your bill. They had no money to pay 404 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 2: the bill. By the way, this company got this deal 405 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:32,400 Speaker 2: through most likely with de Leon's predecessor, the criminal Jose Weezar, 406 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 2: who has taking bribes from another Chinese developer. He was 407 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 2: taking hookers from it and gambling trip chips and cash 408 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 2: and airplane rides and hotel rooms and casino johns and hookers. 409 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: So Weezar. 410 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 2: Traded development of for hookers and this was another company. 411 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 2: I don't know if anything bad happened between Ocean View 412 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 2: and Ruizar, but it was the same time period, it 413 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:14,479 Speaker 2: was the same country. And look at this Ocean Wide 414 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,119 Speaker 2: abandoned it five years ago and the city under Garcetti 415 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:22,120 Speaker 2: and Karen Bass did nothing about it, nothing about it, 416 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 2: and the criminals and vagrants and graffiti artists. 417 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,679 Speaker 1: Have been running around like crazy ever since. 418 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:29,679 Speaker 6: You know. 419 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 2: Had the best story on this is actually the Hollywood Reporter, 420 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:41,639 Speaker 2: and they interviewed a graffiti, a graffiti videographer. Here's a 421 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 2: guy going places. He takes videos of graffiti sites and 422 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 2: his name is street Graf. 423 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: Get it, and. 424 00:23:53,240 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 2: Street graph documented the whole graffiti operation that created that mess. 425 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 2: And he said, we went in as nights of night, 426 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 2: all dark, black clothing, heavy backpacks full of spray cans. 427 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:14,719 Speaker 2: Now it stands as a representation of our beautiful graf community. 428 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,439 Speaker 2: The guy can't even finish the word graffiti. It's graf 429 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 2: and he's proud of this good culture. Now nobody knows 430 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,679 Speaker 2: what they're going to do with the towers. Can they 431 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 2: be turned into public housing? Hollywood reporter asks, well, no, 432 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,640 Speaker 2: if you heard, because it would cost billions of dollars 433 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 2: to turn it into affordable housing. These were set up 434 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:42,199 Speaker 2: as luxury of condos at a hotel. It's not so 435 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 2: easy to do this, and Los Angeles all kinds of 436 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 2: construction retrofitting is extremely expensive, and you have to pay 437 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 2: bribes to the city council, and you have to pay 438 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,640 Speaker 2: bribes to all the agencies that give out the permits. 439 00:24:55,880 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 2: Rick Caruso, who lost to Karen Bass because as she 440 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 2: would have made a much better mayor people thought, and 441 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 2: he says, this goes to the depth of foolishness on 442 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 2: the leadership of the city. Maybe it's because none of 443 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 2: them have ever been in business. Who are they going 444 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 2: to send the bill took? Kevin de Leon's going to 445 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 2: send it to a bankrupt Chinese company whose CEO fled 446 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 2: overseas to avoid prison time here in America. He was 447 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 2: supposed to be Jose Wezar's sell me. Meantime, thugs and 448 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:40,160 Speaker 2: criminals are practically living inside the towers for god knows 449 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,400 Speaker 2: how long, and nobody in the city did anything about it. 450 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: Five years. It's been standing there vacant. 451 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 2: Now it's going to cost taxpayers millions of dollars unless 452 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 2: the guy who runs Oceanwide pays the bill the way 453 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 2: Kevin de Leon is demanded. 454 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 1: Coming up. 455 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 456 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 5: six forty. 457 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:07,639 Speaker 1: Bill A. 458 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 2: Sally is gonna come on with us. He's the assemblyman 459 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:17,439 Speaker 2: out in the Inland Empire, because two Republicans have an 460 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:22,439 Speaker 2: Assembly bill that would actually have a direct impact on 461 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 2: all the homelessness out there, because it would get rid 462 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 2: of this stupid housing first idea, the housing first philosophy, 463 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 2: which is driven, which is driven California's response to homelessness 464 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 2: is a complete failure. And by the way, the reason 465 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,679 Speaker 2: it exists is not because they really think housing first 466 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 2: is a successful way to deal with homelessness. It's because 467 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:56,239 Speaker 2: it gets to enrich all the real estate developers who 468 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 2: are going to build these million dollar apartments for the vagrants. 469 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,399 Speaker 2: Remember these vagrants, these these homeless apartments are going for 470 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 2: up to a million dollars. Well, that's huge profit for 471 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 2: the real estate developers. And that's why the corrupt Assembly 472 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:17,879 Speaker 2: in state Senate and the corrupt governor pushed this. You know, 473 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 2: a lot of the stuff they say doesn't make sense, 474 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 2: and they know it doesn't make sense. It's not meant 475 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 2: to it's meant to be a cover story to distract 476 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 2: you for what's really going on is they're enriching their 477 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 2: campaign donors and I'm sure there's kickbacks and bribes involved. 478 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 1: It's it you think. 479 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 2: You think La is the only city in California where 480 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 2: the politicians are on the take. 481 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:45,200 Speaker 1: Of course not. LA's just perfected it. Now. 482 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 2: The antecdote to this would be the media covering it 483 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 2: all the time, but nobody does. Instead, they get infatuated 484 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 2: with like, yes, housing first, that's the appropriate solution, you 485 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 2: dumb cluck. It's a scaree. It's a real estate developer scam. 486 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 1: All right. 487 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 2: Here's here's another thing we've told you well about. Remember 488 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 2: caw Fart Lara cal Fart Lara. He was a Northern 489 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 2: California legislator, real name Ricardo Lara, and he became famous 490 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:28,399 Speaker 2: because I think he passed a bill or he was 491 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 2: pushing a bill that would require farmers to put these 492 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 2: large devices on the back of cows, so they would 493 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 2: stick a tube up the cow's rear end and when 494 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 2: the cow farted, I am not making this up. 495 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:43,960 Speaker 1: You go look it up. 496 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 2: When the cow farted, the fart gas would go into 497 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 2: the through the tube and into the box on top 498 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 2: of the cow's back. And he thought this was the 499 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,959 Speaker 2: greatest environmental breakthrough that was going to end global warming. 500 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 2: So of course, the dumb clucks that live here in 501 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 2: California elected an insurance commissioner. You imagine that his qualification 502 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 2: was a calfart machine and he becomes insurance commissioner. Well, 503 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 2: in case you didn't notice, the insurance industry is in 504 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 2: total chaos because of his policies. 505 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: And I'll explain here what's going on. 506 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 2: All State is one of the big auto insurers in California, 507 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 2: but recently they had pulled all their business out. The 508 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 2: company would not sell any insurance through its website or 509 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 2: phone service to anybody in California last year. And California's 510 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 2: government now begged and pleaded to come back, and all 511 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 2: State said, well, yeah, but you have to let us 512 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 2: raise rates. So the rates are going up on average 513 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 2: thirty percent, but that's only an average. At the high end, 514 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 2: the rates could go up as much as fifty five percent. 515 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 2: Most policy holders will see it go up twenty five 516 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 2: to forty five percent. 517 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: Here's what happened. 518 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:18,959 Speaker 2: During the COVID nineteen pandemic, when the Soviets in our 519 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 2: state government were shutting down all the businesses and shutting 520 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 2: down our lives. Cal fart Lara, the new insurance commissioner, 521 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 2: ordered the auto insurers to refund customers for their payments 522 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 2: during March, April and May. 523 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: He was saying, hey. 524 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 2: Nobody can drive around, why should they be paying for 525 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 2: it for insurance? And he ordered the companies to do it. 526 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,479 Speaker 2: So companies had to refund two and a half billion 527 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 2: dollars in premiums, and cal fart Lara stopped approving the 528 00:30:52,280 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 2: rate increases. So during the last two years inflation is surge. 529 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 2: They lost two and a half billion dollars during the 530 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 2: COVID lockdown, and the Department of Insurance wouldn't approve any 531 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 2: new rate increases. 532 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: So all states said, the hell with this state. 533 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 2: We're getting out, and cal fart Larra went, what you're 534 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 2: getting out, Yes, you moron, we're getting out, And they 535 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 2: stayed out for much of last year. 536 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 1: And finally. 537 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 2: Some people may have noticed it's I mean, a lot 538 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 2: of insurance companies lost on their auto policies because it 539 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 2: did just affect State Farms. State Farmers had had the 540 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 2: balls to say the hell with this, So all the 541 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 2: companies are losing on their auto policies. I mean, can 542 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 2: you imagine stupid cal Fart Lara do you want to? 543 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 1: First of all, everybody did. 544 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 2: Drive during the lockdown, maybe not as much, but they 545 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:58,600 Speaker 2: did drive. But this is what a communist oriented philosophy produces. 546 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 2: See insurance company, these are bad because they make profits. 547 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 2: Profits are bad, so you punish them. So a lot 548 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 2: of insurance lost in twenty twenty two, and State Farms 549 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 2: subsidiary paid out ninety two percent of all the premiums 550 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 2: that brought in to cover claims, which added up to 551 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 2: a net loss because not only did they pay out 552 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 2: ninety two percent of the premiums for the claims, but 553 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 2: then there's agent salaries, there's marketing, there's other overhead costs. 554 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 2: So State farm all State paid out ninety percent of 555 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 2: its premiums. Worst year on record for California auto insurance 556 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 2: companies twenty twenty two. They have records, they go back 557 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 2: to nineteen ninety one, worst year ever because of cal 558 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,560 Speaker 2: Fart Larra. So now the rates are being jacked up 559 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 2: State Farm raised at twenty one percent, Geico raising him 560 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,720 Speaker 2: at thirteen percent. And this happened in the other communist 561 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 2: states as well, like New York and New Jersey, all 562 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 2: because one guy. And the only reason he became insurance 563 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 2: commissioner is he got name recognition for trying to collect 564 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 2: cal farts to stop global warming. I'm not making this up. 565 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 2: This is California. These are your neighbors, These are your 566 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 2: friends and neighbors and family voting for these people. 567 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: Are we come back? Bill of Saley? 568 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 2: Suddenly a lot of legislators have discovered that there's a 569 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 2: not only a crime wave, but massive homelessness. And the 570 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 2: worst approach to homelessness is housing first, and that's really 571 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:46,200 Speaker 2: a scam. Housing first means there's big money going to 572 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 2: housing developers, the construction industry. We've got two Republicans who 573 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,840 Speaker 2: have a bill that it would get rid of housing 574 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,560 Speaker 2: first because it is a racket. We're going to talk 575 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 2: to Bill A. Saley and he's going to explain this bill, 576 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,920 Speaker 2: and if Bill's got time for us, I'm just going 577 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,680 Speaker 2: to ask him whether this other bill to go after 578 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 2: retail theft that was announced today, if it's worth anything, 579 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,279 Speaker 2: because there's a lot of scrambling going on in Sacramento. 580 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,799 Speaker 2: That's election season, and everybody's pissed off at them. But 581 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,840 Speaker 2: are people going to vote differently? That would change everything? 582 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,120 Speaker 2: You want to change it, Just vote differently. It's not 583 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:34,520 Speaker 2: even about switching parties. It's about not voting for progressives, 584 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,840 Speaker 2: vote for normal. Pete Debra Mark live in the KFI 585 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,360 Speaker 2: twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the 586 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 2: John Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show 587 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,879 Speaker 2: live on KFI Am six forty from one to four 588 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,799 Speaker 2: pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on 589 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,759 Speaker 2: demand on the iHeartRadio app.